Mali

News about Mali, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 20, 2015

Mali government and northern rebel alliance agree to end hostilities and ease tensions for duration of United Nations-sponsored peace negotiations. MORE

Jan. 18, 2015

Joshua Hammer travel article on annual Festival on the Niger in Segou, Mali. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

French troops kill terrorist leader Ahmed al-Tilemsi in deserts of Mali; Tilemsi had a $5 million bounty on his head after State Dept listed him as a global terrorist. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Mali's Ministry of Health reports that no cases of Ebola virus have emerged since last patient in country recovered and left hospital. MORE

Nov. 26, 2014

Editorial expresses alarm at possibility that Ebola outbreak might occur in Mali, noting at least six people have died from Ebola in country already; warns that international agencies and national donors cannot let their guards down; urges Congress to provide full funding for Obama administration request of $6 billion to make further progress in West Africa and to prepare hospitals at home. MORE

Nov. 22, 2014

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Dr Margaret Chan, director genearl of World Health Organization, express renewed alarm about Ebola’s tenacity in Africa and focus on its potential to ravage Mali; while effort to halt virus has made progress, tone of remarks from both leaders is cautious in regard to whether or not worst-case outecomes might be avoided. MORE

Nov. 16, 2014

Editorial warns that gains in controlling Ebola epidemic in West Africa are no reason for complacency; expresses alarm that virus has twice been carried from Guinea into previously unaffected Mali; maintains international assistance must keep up with shifting needs as the outbreak moves. MORE

Nov. 13, 2014

West African nation of Mali, which beat its first outbreak of Ebola, confirms second one that is larger and more threatening; new cases will add to the mounting total of Ebola victims. MORE

Nov. 12, 2014

Officials in Mali announce emergence of second Ebola case; new threat comes as nation approaches end of 21-day quarantines for 108 people linked to first, fatal case. MORE

Nov. 11, 2014

Mali's 21-day quarantine of 108 people who may have had contact with 2-year-old Guinean girl with Ebola is almost over, and 41 people are due to be released; public health workers in Mali are allowing themselves to hope that their quick response has kept country's first outbreak to a single case. MORE

Oct. 30, 2014

France says a French soldier and about 20 Islamist militants were killed during a fierce clash in northern Mali near the Algerian border. MORE

Oct. 25, 2014

Mali reports that 2-year-old girl who traveled from Guinea to Mali while showing symptoms of Ebola has died; dozens of contacts are being traced, but it is unlikely that everybody who encountered the child on public transportation will be identified. MORE

Oct. 24, 2014

Toddler from Mali tests positive for Ebola virus and is put in isolation; Mali is the sixth West African country to confirm Ebola case, indicating again the disease's barely controlled spread across porous regional borders. MORE

Oct. 8, 2014

Senegalese peacekeeper with United Nations mission is killed in rocket attack on a joint United Nations-French military base in northern town of Kidal, Mali; Islamist insurgents in country's north have stepped up attacks on foreign forces in recent weeks. MORE

Oct. 4, 2014

Sep. 3, 2014

At least four United Nations peacekeepers are killed and 15 wounded after their convoy hits mine in northern Mali. MORE

Jul. 27, 2014

United Nations specialists locate second black box of Air Algerie plane that crashed in remote part of Mali, killing all 118 people aboard. MORE

Jul. 26, 2014

Detachment of French soldiers reaches crash site of Air Algerie jetliner in Mali; French officials say accident was most likely weather-related. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

Officials say wreckage of Air Algerie jetliner has been found in semidesert area in Mali, and there appears to be no survivors of crash; say plane, which took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with 110 passengers and crew of six, likely went down during thunderstorm. MORE

Jul. 14, 2014

France says it is reorganizing its forces in Mali and surrounding countries into single regional body focused on battling terrorists; announcement comes days before start of peace talks to end Mali's separatist rebellions. MORE

Jun. 18, 2014

Mahamed Aly Ag Wadoussene, fugitive at heart of prison break in Bamako, Mali, is suspect in 2011 kidnapping of two Frenchmen who ended up in the hands of Al Qaeda's regional faction. MORE

Jun. 11, 2014

Three northern Malian rebel groups sign peace accord in Algiers, pledging to participate in inclusive talks; nation has been in turmoil since 2012, when Tuareg rebel groups seized control of northern Mali. MORE

May. 31, 2014

Spain's Interior Ministry says that police have arrested six members of group who were accused of recruiting militants to fight in Libya and Mali. MORE

May. 27, 2014

United States Special Operations troops are forming elite counterterrorism units in Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali in widening war against Al Qaeda’s affiliates in Africa; acknowledge difficulties of working with weak allies, which pose risks to secretive program. MORE

May. 24, 2014

Tuareg separatist groups in Mali accept cease-fire agreement with government after clashes that threatened to plunged the country back into war. MORE

May. 20, 2014

Separatists in northern Mali release about 30 civil servants that had been held after attack on regional governor's office in Kidal. MORE

Apr. 6, 2014

Mali's entire government steps down after Prime Min Oumar Tatam Ly submits government-wide resignation; he will be replaced by Moussa Mara, town planning minister. MORE

Mar. 15, 2014

Malian military officials say jihadist militant Oumar Ould Hamaha has been killed by French forces in Mali's desert north; Al Qaeda-linked Hamaha was known for his red beard, his bloodthirsty statements to the media and his role in kidnapping a Canadian diplomat in 2008. MORE

Feb. 1, 2014

Aid groups are warning that northern Mali could soon be facing a serious food crisis unless more money is raised. MORE

Dec. 17, 2013

Study conducted by Dr Ari D Johnson in Mali and published in journal PLoS One finds that deploying community health workers to treat sick children rapidly can make an enormous difference in child mortality rates. MORE

Dec. 11, 2013

Senior French officer says that French forces have killed 19 Islamist fighters during security operations in Mali's northern region of Timbuktu; pockets of Al Qaeda are still holding out across the north of the country. MORE

Nov. 29, 2013

Alhassane Ould Mohamed, member of extremist group wanted in fatal carjacking of American official William Bultemeier in Niger in 2000, has been arrested in northern Mali. MORE

Nov. 14, 2013

The former Led Zeppelin frontman has assembled footage of his visit to a music festival in 2003 into a new series to be published online. MORE

Nov. 7, 2013

Diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers gather in Paris to mourn brutal killing of two seasoned French journalists by insurgents in Mali, episode that has raised questions about France’s plans to withdraw some of its troops from country. MORE

Nov. 3, 2013

French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon are kidnapped and killed in unstable northern area of Mali; affiliation of kidnappers is undetermined. MORE

Nov. 2, 2013

Netherlands will contribute about 380 military and police personnel to a United Nations peacekeeping force that is trying to restore stability in Mali. MORE

Oct. 25, 2013

French soldiers in Mali have begun a major anti-insurgent sweep with Malian forces and United Nations peacekeepers; move is largest operation to counteract a revival of Islamist militant activity since France intervened earlier in 2013. MORE

Oct. 24, 2013

Suicide bombing that is believed to have been carried out by Islamists linked to Al Qaeda kills two United Nations peacekeeping soldiers from Chad at a checkpoint in Mali. MORE

Oct. 13, 2013

At least 20 people are killed and nearly 200 are missing after boat capsizes on Niger River in central Mali. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

French Pres Francois Hollande declares victory in Mali over jihadists but vows to keep French forces in country as long as threat exists. MORE

Sep. 5, 2013

Mali’s new Pres Ibrahim Boubacar Keita takes oath of office, promising to help unify country after rebellion, coup and Islamic insurgency plunged long democratic nation into near ruin. MORE

Aug. 22, 2013

Greatest enemy facing Mali’s newly elected Pres Ibrahim Boubacar Keita may not be Muslim extremists, but corruption at every level of government that has lingered for decades. MORE

Aug. 15, 2013

Mali’s departing interim president promotes to the rank of general an army captain who led 2012 coup that plunged nation into crisis. MORE

Aug. 13, 2013

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita wins Mali’s presidency after his opponent concedes defeat even before official results of runoff election were announced. MORE

Aug. 12, 2013

Voters in Mali trickle into darkened polling stations, in hope that a vote for president will pull their country out of one of West Africa's deepest government collapses since the colonial era. MORE

Aug. 3, 2013

Mali will hold a presidential runoff election between Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Soumaila Cisse, sign that the troubled country may be returning to normalcy after more than a year of armed turmoil. MORE

Jul. 31, 2013

Festival au Desert, renowned showcase for world music held annually near Timbuktu, has been forced into exile by political turmoil in Mali; musicians will perform at Lincoln Center Out of Doors series as part of festival's United States tour. MORE

Jul. 29, 2013

Mali holds presidential election under pressure from France and other Western powers; move defies warnings from some observers that country is unprepared for the election and that thousands of citizens could be excluded as a result. MORE

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March 14, 2015, Saturday

Mali’s government and an alliance of northern rebels agreed on Thursday to cease hostilities to ease tensions during peace negotiations sponsored by the United Nations aimed at ending decades of uprisings.